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Related, I've noticed a lot of streaming services have began reclassifying the ratings of older movies and shows. So someone that was G or PG when released migh

Related, I've noticed a lot of streaming services have began reclassifying the ratings of older movies and shows. So someone that was G or PG when released might be, like, 14+ on Amazon. Maybe it's part of an effort to add consistency to old ratings (which were famously inconsistent). But more often it's that the ratings are being "adjusted" for modern sensibilities - depictions of smoking, drinking, bigotry, etc. I have no idea where this new prudish attitude towards gambling is coming from, but it seems to be part of a larger cultural "vibes" shift.

School-Cotton 2y ago
Society is, at least in the US, much less prudish towards gambling now than ever before. The major sports leagues refused to even put a team in Las Vegas for years because the entire city was taboo, now every broadcast has a million ads for gambling apps.
pas 2y ago
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment-has-failed https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online... tl;dr the online mobile phone based gambling (oh, excuse me it's sports betting) apps' societal cost is too high, the whole economy is basically predatory (because the sane platforms were driven out of the market) https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-sports-gambling-industry-needs https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-sports-gambling-industry-ne... https://www.slowboring.com/p/online-sports-betting-hurts-consumers https://www.slowboring.com/p/online-sports-betting-hurts-con... """ [...] total sports wagers had grown to well over a hundred billion dollars annually and states with legalized mobile sports gambling had seen a corresponding rise in calls to addiction hotlines [...] While most gamblers wager responsibly, a concerning minority do not. Large samples of individual financial data show that legalized sports gambling decreases credit scores, increases debt loads, and substitutes positive investment activities. These effects are particularly prevalent among low-income men. """

School-Cotton 2y ago

Society is, at least in the US, much less prudish towards gambling now than ever before. The major sports leagues refused to even put a team in Las Vegas for years because the entire city was taboo, now every broadcast has a million ads for gambling apps.

pas 2y ago

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment-has-failed https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online... tl;dr the online mobile phone based gambling (oh, excuse me it's sports betting) apps' societal cost is too high, the whole economy is basically predatory (because the sane platforms were driven out of the market) https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-sports-gambling-industry-needs https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-sports-gambling-industry-ne... https://www.slowboring.com/p/online-sports-betting-hurts-consumers https://www.slowboring.com/p/online-sports-betting-hurts-con... """ [...] total sports wagers had grown to well over a hundred billion dollars annually and states with legalized mobile sports gambling had seen a corresponding rise in calls to addiction hotlines [...] While most gamblers wager responsibly, a concerning minority do not. Large samples of individual financial data show that legalized sports gambling decreases credit scores, increases debt loads, and substitutes positive investment activities. These effects are particularly prevalent among low-income men. """